The wife of the Senate President of Nigeria, Mrs. Unoma Godswill Akpabio, has filed multiple lawsuits at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The suits allege a breach of fundamental rights and defamation stemming from statements made by the senator on the Senate floor and during a televised interview on Arise News.

In the fundamental rights suit (Suit No: CV/814/25), brought under Section 34(1)(a) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Article 4 & 5 of The African Charter on Human And Peoples Rights (Ratification And Enforcement Act) Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, Mrs. Akpabio seeks the following:

  1. A Declaration that the allegations made by the Respondent (Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan) on the floor of the Senate on the 20th of February 2025 and subsequent scandalous and salacious allegations on Arise News TV by the Respondent constitute a flagrant violation of the fundamental rights of the Applicant (Mrs. Akpabio) guaranteed under Section 34(1)(A) of The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended), Article 4 & 5 of The African Charter on Human And Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement Act) Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and Section 14 of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.
  2. An Order of Perpetual Injunction restraining the Respondent from making further inciteful, scandalous, and spiteful statements that have caused the Applicant and her children emotional and psychological abuse and living under constant threat and fear of their lives.
  3. An Order of Perpetual Injunction restraining the Respondent, whether by themselves, their agents, privies, or howsoever, from further inciteful, scandalous, and spiteful statements that have caused the Applicant and her children emotional and psychological abuse and living under constant threat and fear of their lives or in any other manner infringing on their fundamental rights.
  4. An Order awarding the sum of N250,000,000,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Billion Naira only) as exemplary, punitive, aggravated, and general damages against the Respondent for her infringement of the fundamental rights of the Applicant alongside.
  5. Such further or other Orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.

Additionally, in a separate defamation lawsuit (Suit No: CV/816/25), Mrs. Akpabio seeks the following:

  1. A Declaration that the Defendant’s (Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s) act of claiming on national television that the Claimant’s (Mrs. Akpabio’s) husband, who is the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, made sexual advances at her without any proof has damaged the reputation of the Claimant and indeed her entire family, bringing them into disrepute and opprobrium.
  2. An Order of this Honourable Court mandating the Defendant to issue a formal written retraction of the defamatory words and tender an unconditional apology to the Claimant and her family, to be published in two nationally-read newspapers: The Guardian and This Day Newspapers.
  3. An Order of this Honourable Court compelling the Defendant to pay to the Claimant the sum of ₦1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira only) as punitive and exemplary damages for the ruinous effect of the Defendant’s defamatory words on the Claimant’s family’s reputation.
  4. An Order of Perpetual Injunction restraining the Defendant from further uttering any defamatory words or causing to be uttered or spread, any defamatory words against the reputation of the Claimant’s family.
  5. Any further or ancillary order or other Orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstance.

The legal action comes after Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan made serious allegations on the Senate floor and in a televised interview, where she accused the Senate President of making sexual advances towards her. Mrs. Akpabio asserts that these statements were false, defamatory, and damaging to her reputation and that of her family, leading to emotional and psychological distress for herself and her children.

Mrs. Akpabio is seeking  damages and an injunction to prevent any further defamatory statements, while also demanding a public retraction and apology from Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan.

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